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The stupid and the angry

When I think back what’s been the human feature that has made me most mad the incontestable winner is stupidity. Stupidity has made me annoyed, angry and even hostile. After a few years of yoga practice when I felt I had got a little bit more distance with my spicy emotions, I took this problem to think it through. I asked myself why was it that the stupid people made me furious. I didn’t think I was especially intelligent, but when someone was more stupid than me, it made me really angry. I asked myself many questions, but I couldn’t find out why. I guess I concluded that the stupid people just happen to be very irritable.

I was to meet even more irritable people. Not only they were stupid they were also angry. I felt that their anger resulted from their stupidity and their stupidity from their anger – my own anger was justified in some odd way in my own eyes and didn’t have anything to do with stupidity. 😀

The years passed. Then one day I decided to see again if I’d get an answer to why this combination of characteristics was so unbearable to me. Well, I did see that those who were stupid in my mind where those who didn’t understand me. I realized they actually made me feel stupid. I realized also that if there was really a stupid person in front of me, I needed to be more intelligent than usually to communicate intelligently. And when there was an angry person in front of me, I needed to find more kindness in me than usual.

This kind of challenge means that we lay down our arms and find humbleness inside. Then we calm ourselves and look for an energy to build a bridge. I didn’t have energy and patience for this at all. Nowadays I try to find at least a mirror as soon as I feel bad not to put the blame on anybody else. Then I wait for the gentleness to rise anew in me. ❤